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* ''[[The Punisher|Punisher MAX]]'' had a crazy mobster henchman who after having one of his eyes pulled out, getting cut, beaten, shot, impaled on an iron spiked fence and having Frank blow his head in half with a shotgun still took two more steps making even Frank panic a little.
* ''[[Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?]]'': Lex Luthor, controlled by Braniac's head on his cranium [[Fighting From the Inside|fights from inside]] when he begs a superpowered Lana Lang to kill him. It doesn't do his body much good: Braniac controls his corpse like a macabre puppet. The Braniac-cap himself exhibits this trait once rigor mortis sets in, detaching itself crawling "powered only by malice", swearing to kill Superman even as it dies.
* The ''[[Sandman]]'' story, "Facade", features Urania Blackwell, aka "Element Girl", who wants to die but can't. When she finally asks the sun god Ra to take away her "gift", her body is temporarily left as a standing, human-shaped figure of dust.
* In Larry Hama's recent{{when}} ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' continuation, Duke comes to Snake-Eyes' Mountain cabin to warn them about Cobra's reappearance, only to find Scarlett under attack by Red Ninjas. After helping her out, they enter the burning cabin to find three ninjas just standing there on fire. Scarlett remarks that it must have been recent, as they don't realize they're dead yet.
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* The appendices to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' include the story of Helm Hammerhand, an ancient King of Rohan who, being besieged in the Hornburg during a bad winter, took to going out alone at night and kill enemies with his bare hands. One day he didn't return, and in the morning was found outside standing upright, but dead and frozen.
* A non-badass verion in ''[[Let's Go Play at the Adams']]''. The only reason {{spoiler|Barbara does this is because of how she is tied up when she dies}}
* Enjolras in ''[[Les Misérables]]'', although he had a wall behind him.
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* A character from ''[[Universal Compass]]'' fades away (dies) while standing up.
* In ''[[Weapon Brown]]'' the expy of {{spoiler|The Phantom}} gets his head blown clean off. Not only does he die standing, he '' {{spoiler|becomes the corpse that walks}}''!
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', Lulianne had a [[Hope Spot]] when she found the remnants of the Dutan'vir's [[Last Stand]] and found one person still standing... only he [https://web.archive.org/web/20161229040104/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5944 wasn't actually alive] in a technical sense, having been taken over by [[Demonic Possession|a demon]], and the various blades in his body indicate that his fellow warriors had tried to kill him once he was possessed. Also a rather cruel twist on the Dutan'vir's sigil, which was a tower that represented stability.
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